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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Babu Patel and David Singleton, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.

This time, continuing our Summer of ’99 season, Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

1999 was a great year for movies, with a host of massively successful (and cult) hits that would define cinema for a next generation: Being John Malkovich, The Blair Witch Project, Go, Cruel Intentions, American Beauty. The Summer of ’99 season offers a trip through the year in film on the IMDb‘s 250.

Four young men in London find themselves in the middle of an elaborate scheme involving half a million bounds, mountains of marijuana, a shady sex shop proprietor, and two antique shotguns. As the situation rapidly escalates outside of their control, can these four young men keep their heads above water?

At time of recording, it was ranked 137th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 25th August 2019.
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Note: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was originally released in the United Kingdom in August 1998. However, it would not arrive in American cinemas until March 1999. So we’re absolutely cheating and counting it as part of this season.
• Listen to Blank Jack Davy on Soundcloud.
• Listen to Blank Jack Davy on Bandcamp.
• Guy Ritchie talks to The Guardian about the making of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, October 1999.
• Matt Wolf at The New York Times looks at the production of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, February 1999.
• The Guardian offers a brief introduction to Guy Ritchie, August 2000.
• Andrew Pulver reviews Snatch for The Guardian, September 2000.
• Nathan Rabin revisits Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for The Dissolve, April 2015.
• Peter Lyle at The Guardian reports of the influence of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels on men’s fashion, September 2000.
• Richard Vine at The Guardian reports on the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels spin-off television series, May 2000.
• Kayleigh Donaldson at Pajiba mounts a defense of Guy Ritchie, May 2019.
• Sidespin charts Margaret Thatcher’s attempts to destroy soccer during the eighties, April 2013.
• Callum Hamilton at Vice discusses the nineties golden age of British football, August 2014.
• “Roger Nouveau: Arsenal Fan”, The Fast Show, November 1997.
• Tom Breihan at The Village Voice on the fetishisation of British culture, December 2007.
• Kate Watson-Smyth at The Independent reports on Vinnie Jones’ arrest for assaulting his neighbour, December 1997.
• Vinnie Jones and Paul Gascoigne discuss that iconic photograph on TalkSport, February 2019.
• Guy Kelly at The Telegraph discusses the legacy of Lenny McLean, October 2016.
• Nick Hopkins at The Guardian reports on John Abbott’s complaints about Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels glamourising crime, September 2000.
• Gangster David Courtney discusses his life with The Independent, September 1999.
• Guy Ritchie directs an advertisement for the Corvette, August 2004.
• Stephen Brook at The Guardian on the withdrawal of Guy Ritchie’s advertisement for the Corvette, August 2004.
• Robert Jackman at Little Atoms on Britain’s thriving direct-to-DVD market, July 2017.
• Andrew Pulver at The Guardian on the low-budget crime film boom in Britain, April 2015.
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